With this the General formally launched his bid for another five-year term in the face of legal challenges and stiff protests by the opposition parties.

Islamabad was sealed off to thwart planned protests by lawyers as Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz led a large group of ministers and chief ministers of three provinces and top leaders of the ruling Pakistan Muslim League-Q to file the papers on behalf of Musharraf.

Besides Aziz, 17 others, including chief ministers of Punjab, Sindh and Balohchistan all belonging to the ruling PML-Q, proposed and seconded Musharraf's candidature.

Image: Pakistani Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz (left) leaves the election commission office with ruling party Pakistan Muslim League-Quaid chief Chaudhry Shujjat (centre), Mushahid Hussain (right), Foreign Minister Khurshid Kasuri (top left) and other leaders after filing the nomination papers of President Pervez Musharraf.
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